Democratic Humanism and American LiteratureTransaction Publishers - 298 strani |
Vsebina
The Double Consciousness | 49 |
The Myth of America | 103 |
The Need To Become Human | 129 |
One Royal Mantle of Humanity | 159 |
Song of the Answerer | 198 |
What It Means To Be Civilized | 225 |
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abstract actual affirmations Ahab Ahab's American writing becomes Billy Billy Budd called Captain Ahab Captain Vere Cereno Chad civilization conflict conscience contradictions criticism culture D. H. Lawrence death democracy democratic dialectic Dimmesdale double consciousness dramatic effect equality Ethan Brand ethical existence experience expressed F. O. Matthiessen fact faith feel Finn freedom Hawthorne Hawthorne's hero Huck human Ibid ideal imagination innocence intellectual Ishmael James judgment Lawrence Lawrence's literary literature living Mark Twain meaning Melville Melville's metaphysical mind Mme de Vionnet Moby Dick moral myth Natty Bumppo nature pantheism perhaps person Poe's poetry political principle protagonist Queequeg R. W. B. Lewis reality revolution revolutionary Scarlet Letter seems sense social society soul spirit story stress Strether suggests theme things Thoreau thought tion Tocqueville tradition tragedy tragic transcendental truth unity universe values Walden whale Whitman words
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Stran ix - Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest, Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next, Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it.